Spare Parts Management and Strategic Maintenance Inventory

An applied course in spare parts and maintenance inventory built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Maintenance budgets are cut on spare parts and maintenance inventory in good years and paid for in bad ones. The professional literature on maintenance inventory converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. It establishes a shared vocabulary for this area of engineering and maintenance work so that teams can disagree productively about it. Moving spare parts and maintenance inventory from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Participants who influence the practice within engineering and maintenance work without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in maintenance inventory before they become incidents. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from spare parts and maintenance inventory, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to maintenance inventory that the participant is prepared to defend internally.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Integrate spare parts and maintenance inventory into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

02

Assign clear ownership for each element of maintenance inventory across the functions involved.

03

Select the maintenance strategy for spare parts and maintenance inventory — run to failure, preventive, or condition-based — on evidence.

04

Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in maintenance inventory.

05

Investigate repeat failures on spare parts and maintenance inventory to root cause.

06

Apply safe isolation, permit and lockout controls to work on maintenance inventory.

07

Build the competence framework for technicians working on spare parts and maintenance inventory.

Who Should Attend

01

Safety officers reviewing hazards created by work on spare parts and maintenance inventory.

02

Finance staff assessing maintenance and replacement spend on maintenance inventory.

03

Reliability engineers analysing failures in spare parts and maintenance inventory.

04

Newly appointed managers taking on maintenance inventory for the first time.

05

Training and development staff building internal capability in spare parts and maintenance inventory.

06

Maintenance managers and planners responsible for maintenance inventory.

Course Modules

01

Spare parts and maintenance inventory: safe isolation and permit control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing spare parts and maintenance inventory before relying on it

  • Rehearse the briefing on spare parts and maintenance inventory that would follow an incident.
  • Agree what will be standardised in maintenance inventory and what will not.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether spare parts and maintenance inventory is improving.
  • Benchmark the organisation's maintenance inventory against comparable operations.

Session 2Who answers for maintenance inventory, and to whom

  • Map the handovers in spare parts and maintenance inventory between functions and secure them.
  • Confirm isolation and permit requirements before any work on maintenance inventory.
  • Confirm that those complying with spare parts and maintenance inventory understand why it exists.
  • Check that maintenance inventory still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
02

Maintenance inventory: choosing the right maintenance strategy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Planning work on maintenance inventory so it does not become reactive

  • Review whether spare parts and maintenance inventory is aligned with the objectives of the asset base.
  • Reduce the variation in how maintenance inventory is carried out between teams.
  • Compare the cost of spare parts and maintenance inventory with the cost of its absence.
  • Assign a criticality rating to maintenance inventory that drives work order priority.

Session 2Maintenance indicators for maintenance inventory that change behaviour

  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in spare parts and maintenance inventory.
  • Set out the decisions in maintenance inventory that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Draft the minimum viable maintenance procedure for spare parts and maintenance inventory.
  • Rank the weaknesses in maintenance inventory by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
03

Maintenance inventory: failure modes, consequence and criticality

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Isolating maintenance inventory safely before work begins

  • Remove steps in spare parts and maintenance inventory that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for maintenance inventory.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to spare parts and maintenance inventory will be introduced.
  • Name a single owner for each element of maintenance inventory.

Session 2What condition data on spare parts and maintenance inventory is telling you early

  • Investigate repeat failures on spare parts and maintenance inventory to root cause, not to component.
  • Define acceptance criteria for completed work on maintenance inventory.
  • Identify single points of dependency in spare parts and maintenance inventory and reduce them.
  • Define acceptance criteria for maintenance inventory in advance.
04

Maintenance inventory: history, documentation and competence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on maintenance inventory starts

  • Choose the maintenance strategy for spare parts and maintenance inventory based on failure pattern, not tradition.
  • Test the procedure for maintenance inventory against a realistic scenario.
  • Check that records of spare parts and maintenance inventory answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Prepare the summary of maintenance inventory that senior management will read.

Session 2Investigating the failure on maintenance inventory that keeps returning

  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when spare parts and maintenance inventory underperforms.
  • List the credible failure modes of maintenance inventory and the consequence of each.
  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for spare parts and maintenance inventory.
  • Set maintenance indicators for maintenance inventory that reward planning rather than heroics.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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